Octogenarian Threatens Domestic Security Via Snail Mail

From the Smirking Chimp :

Matthew Rothschild: 'History professor's mail opened by Homeland Security'
Posted on Tuesday, January 03 @ 10:04:56 EST (291 reads)
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

Grant Goodman is an 81-year-old emeritus professor of Asian history at the University of Kansas. He has had an ongoing correspondence by snail mail with a former professor of history at the University of the Philippines, where Goodman had taught on three separate occasions. In early December, he was shocked when a letter arrived from her that had already been opened.

"The bottom of the envelope had been slashed open and then retaped with green tape," says Goodman. "And itsaid, 'Opened by Border Protection' in great big letters. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal is on it, too."Goodman believes his rights have been "absolutely" violated, he says. "I just couldn't believe it and wondered what in the world is going on."
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